Sentence examples for Mere distraction from inspiring English sources

This was mere distraction.

He would be unstoppable, Trump a mere distraction.

It had become rather more than a mere distraction.

But the comic aspects served as mere distraction.

Without content, media become a mere distraction -- sonic or optical wallpaper.

At Waco, the F.B.I. treated a community's religious claims as a mere distraction.

Yet those are mere distractions.

And its contemporary amusements are mere distractions.

Celebrities are mere distractions; instead the pressure we put on ourselves comes mostly from within.

Yet these, I think, are mere distractions, a set of stock and brutish archetypes.

Such pop-culture Moments, according to this view, are mere distractions from what Obama called "the real world".